While talking, the three of them came to a courtyard, and the old man pushed open the door and shouted inside: "Old woman, there are guests, make something delicious!" ”

"Guest?" Several voices rang out in unison, and it sounded like there were at least three people, a man and two women, two of whom were younger and one of whom was older.

An old woman in her fifties and sixties and two men and women in the prime of life walked out, they looked at Gu Renyun and Shushenglai, and then nodded, which was regarded as a hello.

The old man introduced the guests to the old woman, who was naturally his wife, but the young man and woman were his sons and daughters-in-law, and he had an eight-year-old grandson.

Gu Renyun and the scholar also introduced themselves by the way.

Only then did Gu Renyun know that the scholar's name was Wu Zhengran, and he didn't have any fame at present.

After the introduction, the old woman went to the kitchen to get busy, and the old man took Gu Renyun and his party to the lobby to greet everyone to watch, and his daughter-in-law went to prepare tea for everyone.

After each sat down, the old man let out a long sigh: "The next thing can also be thought of, naturally most people want to escape from this place when this happens, but ......"

Speaking of this, the old man sighed heavily, shook his head and said bitterly: "Difficult, difficult, difficult!" ”

A series of three difficult words seemed to exhaust the strength of the old man's whole body, and after these three words were spoken, Lao Tzu did not speak again for a long time.

Gu Renyun was curious, what could be more difficult than this ghost breaking out in the village? Even if you escape, you will die in the end, and it is better than staying here and waiting for death...... Unless they have something to do about it?

You can't count on passers-by like yourself, right?

After a while, the scholar nodded with feeling: "Indeed! Now there is a big chaos, natural disasters, man-made disasters, ghost chaos, and demon disasters are frequent, if you really leave the village, it may not be better than now......"

"Yes, one is that we are an old and immortal country that is difficult to leave, and everyone has no money to spare, if you abandon this land to a big city, then eighty percent is also a homeless beggar who doesn't know tomorrow today, and the three are ordinary people, I'm afraid that the road is either eaten by monsters, or killed by bandits, and we can't get to ......the next city at all."

Demons, ghosts, man-made disasters, natural disasters...... Is this world hell difficult? Gu Renyun was surprised, he still thought that this world was just a natural disaster, so the situation in this village was actually quite good?

"Do you have any plans for dealing with this?" Gu Renyun believes that everything must have a reason, there are demons and monsters in this world, but human beings are still its mainstream, so there must be a way to restrain them, otherwise this world will not be destroyed long ago.

Of course, this is the case in the real world, but not necessarily in the virtual world, because he is just a story, and the villain BOSS who can destroy the world ends up dying inexplicably on an ordinary protagonist, is this kind of story missing?

But if it is the spiritual world, it is not necessarily, because the spiritual world has been out of the framework of the story, if the world is really unbalanced, and the demon power is great, it is very likely to cause the extinction of human beings or the result of being in captivity, of course, because the source of consciousness of sentient beings and human beings, there will be more care for human beings when they evolve the world, so this situation generally does not occur.

"What else can there be, everyone decided to build a land temple, hoping that the land lord can suppress this ghost......"

"Does this work?" Gu Renyun was very surprised, this method should not work, there must be a god before there is a temple, what is the use of building a temple without a god? You can just ask for peace of mind.

The old man shook his head: "It's just a hope, the so-called planting a good plane tree, so as to attract the phoenix, we are just building a land temple first, hoping to attract the land to settle in, but this hope is too slim, where can our small village attract the true god." ”

"But......" The old man perked up his spirits, and looked at Gu Renyun and Wu Zhengran urgently: "The two little brothers can walk alone in the wild, they must be able to solve this ghost, right?" ”

"Of course no problem!"

"Ahh I ......"

Gu Renyun was proud, but Wu Zhengran's answer was full of hesitation.

The old man's face couldn't help but be happy when he heard what Gu Renyun said, but his face turned black when he heard Wu Zhengran's answer.

"Tea is coming!" At this time, the old man's daughter-in-law brought tea and stood aside after adding tea to everyone one by one.

"Chirp!" Suddenly, the hairball excitedly broke free of Gu Renyun's hand, jumped on the table with a scream, and licked the tea......

But immediately the hairball seemed to have drunk something unpleasant, and vomited it again and again.

"What is this?" Everyone stood up, they had never seen this thing before, although it looked weak and small, but it was very likely to be a demon's disguise, maybe under a transformation, it would become bigger than a house.

"Don't be nervous!" Gu Renyun waved his hand at them and comforted: "This is my adopted pet, don't worry, it's harmless." ”

Everyone felt a little calmer, and sat back again, but everyone sat down less stable than before, and the old man persuaded: "Gu Gongzi is still careful, some demons are quite cunning and like to change into something seemingly harmless, this thing is strange and difficult to guarantee that it is not changed by demons." ”

"Yes, I'll pay attention!" Gu Renyun said casually, the hairball is not a creature in this world, so naturally it can't be a demon, but these can't be said to them.

Gu Renyun's perfunctory appearance can be seen by everyone, but they can't either, after all, this is someone else's business, the old man can only sigh, and ask his daughter-in-law to bring Gu Renyun a new cup to refill the tea.

Gu Renyun got up and tasted it, it was a little bitter, he didn't understand tea, he didn't understand why people like to drink tea, in his opinion, it was better to make a cup of orange juice or something.

Everyone continued to talk while drinking tea, but because of Gu Renyun and Wu Zhengran's answers, the old man was obviously more enthusiastic about Gu Renyun, and he could be said to ignore the scholars, but Gu Renyun also understood.

Door-to-door accommodation is to ask for help with people, people are willing to be love, unwilling to be that duty, in the case of you can not help others, others are willing to let you stay, that is the kindness to you, if you still want people to be enthusiastic about you, it is too much.

During the chat, the old man asked Gu Renyun how he planned to deal with the ghost, Gu Renyun was bold, and immediately said that he would live in Li Er's room that night, which made both the scholar and the old man startled, and they persuaded him not to worry, it was better to investigate the situation during the day.

But Gu Renyun stopped with a smile, signaling that they didn't need to persuade anymore, just a little ghost, how could it be worth waiting for a day.

Seeing Gu Renyun so persistent, the old man was half worried, half happy - worried that Gu Renyun was so careless, afraid that it would be easy to have accidents, and happy that the other party was so confident, but it also proved that the other party's skills were very strong.

And the scholar hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Then I will also accompany Brother Gu, everyone can take care of it!" ”

"You?" Gu Renyun was surprised.

Suddenly, Gu Renyun thought of a question, if this world is centered on this village, then scholars, outsiders, this is simply the standard template of the protagonist of the story, could it be that this scholar is the protagonist of this story?

It's worth looking into!

Thinking of this, Gu Renyun nodded happily: "Welcome!" ”

When the old man saw that the scholar said that he was also going, he immediately changed his previous ignorance and enthusiastically said many good words to the scholar to express his gratitude.

After a long time, dinner was finally ready, the main dish was a stuffy chicken, the side dish was tofu and some unknown vegetables and fruits, Gu Renyun naturally didn't care about these, and the scholar didn't have any special rudeness, it can be seen that his family must be very wealthy.

But the old man's family was so hungry that they drooled when they saw the chicken, and it seemed that their family was bleeding heavily in order to entertain the guests.

At the dinner table, Gu Renyun and Wu Zhengran ate unhurriedly and quite elegantly, while the old man's family was devouring a chicken, Gu Renyun and Wu Zhengran only tasted a few bites, and most of them fell into the mouths of the old man's son and grandson.

The old man was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, and he was embarrassed to apologize to Gu Renyun and the others.

"Brother Wu and I don't lack this stuttering, don't worry, right, Brother Wu?" Gu Renyun looked at Wu Zhengran with a smile.

"Of course, although the family is not very rich, at least the family has meat, and I am tired of eating it."

"I'm tired of eating!" Wu Nature's words aroused the envy of the old man's family, they rarely eat meat once a year, but people bluntly said that they were tired of eating, how rich this is.

Gu Renyun wiped his mouth, stood up and said, "Since we have finished eating, then hurry up and take us to Li Er's house, it will be solved early." ”

The old man hesitated for a moment and nodded, "Okay!" Guests, please come with me. ”

The old man found two lanterns at home, one was given to Gu Renyun, and the other walked out of the house by himself.

At this moment, the sky was completely dark, the full moon was hanging high in the sky, and the faint moonlight was sprinkled, so that Gu Renyun could see the surrounding environment clearly even without using lanterns.

There are a few courtyards standing loosely around, but there is no light, and even the chickens and dogs are not heard, the village can be said to be so quiet that it is creepy, Gu Renyun chatted with the village chief without a match.

"Village chief, why don't you see other people in the village, and don't you see them turn on the lights?"

"Oh, the people in the village go to bed early, and after saying that this place is haunted, they rarely come out after dark."

"But when I came, it wasn't dark yet, and I didn't seem to see anyone else."

"During the day, everyone is busy with their own farming work, and they have to build a land temple, and there are few people in the village, so the guests look like there is no one in the village."

The village chief who led the way in front suddenly stopped: "Okay, it's here!" ”

Gu Renyun looked at the courtyard in front of him, the door was wide open, and there seemed to be a faint gust of wind coming from inside, it was dark inside, and he only vaguely saw a few mud houses in the courtyard.

About 50 meters to the right of this courtyard, there is also a courtyard, which is probably Zhu Qi's home, but Gu Renyun was surprised that behind him, that is, about ten meters away from Li Er's courtyard, there was also a courtyard...... The village chief didn't say it!

"What is this yard?" Gu Renyun turned around and pointed to this courtyard and asked, the gate of this courtyard is closed, and it looks quite new.

"Oh, this is the land temple we built, we built it during the daytime, but only one outline was built, and there are many details that have not been built, so it is not open." After the old man finished explaining, he asked, "If it's okay, then I'll leave the old man...... Hey, I'm not afraid of guest jokes, I've been here for a long time, and the old man also feels a little swishy. ”

"Let's go, let's go!" Gu Renyun waved his hand indifferently.

The old man disappeared as if he had been pardoned, and disappeared here faster than when he came.

"Brother Gu, do we really want to go in now?" After the old man left, Wu Zhengran couldn't help but ask, he looked at the gate of this courtyard as if he saw a huge mouth opened by an evil ghost, it was easy to get in but it was difficult to get out.

Gu Renyun patted Wu Zhengran on the shoulder, and then stepped into the door, "Brother Wu, have you heard?" The range of this evil ghost could have been extended to a few tens of meters away a few days ago, and you have all arrived here, so what difference does it make if you can't get in? ”

Wu Zhengran hesitated, but still followed.

Gu Renyun looked at the various rooms and walked straight towards the largest room.

"Squeak" pushed open the hidden door, Gu Renyun stepped in, this house is where the hall is located, but there is a small door on the left and right of the hall, which may lead to the bedroom or something.

There is very little furniture in the hall, only one of the eight immortals, a few stools, and a small offering table in the innermost part of the hall, on which there is an incense burner full of ashes, and there are some unburned incense on it, and there is a portrait of a god wearing armor with round eyes and angry eyes hanging on the offering table, but Gu Renyun does not know it.

Wu Zhengran leaned over and sighed: "Everyone in the world prays for the blessing of the gods, but even if the gods have three heads and six arms, they can protect a few people, it is better to ask for God than to ask for yourself, as long as you don't do bad things, and your heart is open, the ghost will naturally not come to you for trouble." ”

"Hehe......" Gu Renyun disagrees with this point of view, if a ghost wants to kill someone, can it care if you are a good person or a bad person? Well, even if some sensible ghosts can tell, most of the ghosts don't care about these, so he agrees with the first half of Wu Zhengran's sentence - it is better to ask God than to ask for a few, but he does not agree with the second half of the sentence.

"Brother Wu, how do you think we can find out the ghosts here?" Gu Renyun changed the topic and asked.

"There have always been only ghosts looking for people, how can anyone find ghosts, I think we can only wait for ......" As soon as the words fell, ignoring a gust of cloudy wind, the room suddenly darkened, and it turned out that the lantern in Gu Renyun's hand went out all of a sudden.

But fortunately, there is still the moonlight sprinkled by the boat owner and the door, so that people are not completely invisible, but between the hazy and hazy, any slightest wind blowing, or shadow change, is terrifying.

"It's true that you can't talk about people every day, and you can't talk about ghosts at night, and as soon as you say it, you come!" Gu Renyun smiled and put the lantern aside.

Wu Zhengran's tone trembled a little. Trembling said: "Not necessarily, maybe it's just a coincidence, it's just blown out by the wind." ”

"This lantern is impermeable to the wind, and there is only a ventilation port below, and it is impossible to blow it out unless the wind blows from the bottom up. But don't worry, if it's really a powerful ghost, then he will go straight to it, and he doesn't need to blow out our lights first, this is trying to hit us psychologically, but this also shows that the other party is not strong. ”

"Makes sense!" When Wu Zhengran heard this, he felt reasonable, and suddenly became bold, "Then what do we do now?" ”

"Of course it's forcing him to show up, I don't have so much time to play with him, hurry up, I have to catch up with the next one!"

"What do you mean by the next one?" Wu Zhengran was puzzled.

But Gu Renyun didn't have the heart to explain to him again, he strode outside, but when he walked to the door, the door suddenly creaked and closed......

He tried to push the door, but the door was obviously unlocked but it didn't move, Gu Renyun shrugged his shoulders, indicating that this was expected.

Suddenly, he felt a cool aura pass behind him, and he looked back......

Nothing!

Including Wu Zhengran, who was still by his side just now!